Combined hulling and cleaning device.



. G. A. HUBER.

COMBINED HULLING AND CLEANING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 1908. 899301 Patented Sept. 22, 1908.

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G. A. HUBER. COMBINED HULLING AND CLEANING DEVICE.

, I APPLICATION FILED PER. '1, 1908. 899,301

Patented Sept. 22, 1908.

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[NVENTOR u b 8 Af/omeys Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Se t. 22, 1908.

Application filed February 7, 1908. Serial No. 414,830.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, GEORGE ADAM HUBER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Waverly, in the county of Sussex and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a CombinedHulling and Cleaning Device; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in combined hulling and cleanmg devices and more articularly to that class adapted to be emp oyed for hulling and I cleaning peanuts and my object is to provide means for crushing and removing the hulls from the kernel. j

A further ob'ect is to provide means for regulating the ow of the nuts into the hulling com artment.

A stil further object is to provide means for adjusting the'parts of the huller.

A still further object is to provide means r. for grading the hulled nuts as they descend from the huller to a receptacle and astill further object is to provide means for directing a blast of air through the descendin nuts, whereby the hulls and foreign partic es will be blown clear of the hulled nuts.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the claims. 1

In the accompanying drawing; which are made a part of this application, igure 1 is a perspective view of my improved huller complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical, longitudinal, seetional view thereof, and, Fig. 3 is a top plan and frame terminating at their view thereof.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates a frame,'which may be constructed in the usual or any preferred manner, and 2 indicates side walls therefor, said side walls u per edge and at one side of the center of the flame in a hopper 3, saidho per having a swinging closure 4 and an inc inedbottom5.

An opening 6 is formed between the lower end of the. inclined bottom 5 and the 006 cratingend wall of the hopper 3, through w ich the nuts are adapted to pass on entering the hulling chamber 7, the flow of the nuts through said opening being controlled by tered in (grooves .9 in the side walls of the hopper, sai slide being vertically adjusted by means of a rod 10, the lower end ofwhich is pivotally secured to the slide, while the upper end thereof is threaded and introduced through a threaded socket .11 on the upper of said rod being provided withfa hand-wheel 12, whereby said rod may be readily rotated. Located between the side walls 2 and forming the lower Wall of the hulling chamber 7, are a lurality of laterally extendin means of a slide 8, the ends of which are en- .face of the'hopper 3, the extreme upper end bars 13, whic bars are secured at each end to curved brackets. 14, the ends of said brackets being in turn carried by lates 15 and 16 at opposite ends of said brac ets, the

plate 15 extending'through' slots 17 in the walls 2 and are adjustably su ported by introducing threaded bolts 18 tl irough the extended ends of the plate and through threaded seats in ears 19 on the frame 1, while the plate 16 is adjustably secured to a cross bar '20 of the frame 1 by introducing bolts 21 through the plate 16 and into threaded openings in the cross bar 20, and by so mounting the bars 13, that the same may be raised or lowered, as desired.

Extending laterally through the frame 1 is a shaft 22, on which is mounted a beater or hulling frame 23, said beater being'ada ted to rotate with the shaft and crush the ulls of the nuts as they are moved over the bars 13 by said beater, the ends of said shafts extending be ondthe frame and having cranks 24 secured to the extended ends, whereby said beater may be readily rotated.

As the crushed shells and kernels descend i between the bars 13, they are received on an inclined screen 25, the higher end of said screen being adjacent one end of the frame, thereby directing the kernels of the nuts towards the center of the frame, where they are deposited inany suitable form of receptacle 26, the inner end of the screen 25 being disposed in a vertical plane, whereby the kernels will readily descend into the receptacle and it will be readily seen that as the kernels ass over the screen, the smaller kernels and oreign particles will descend through the screen and not enter the receptacle, in which event the prime kernels only will be entered in the receptacle, while the inferior kernels are deposited on the floor or are .collectedin any preferred manner. a

. 50 height, the nuts p Asthe when and as are'commingled as the descend upon the screen 25, I have 1 provi ed means for sep-aratin the hulls from the kernels, which consists o a blast fan 27, 5 which is located between the side walls 2 and adj acent the lower end of the inclined screen- 25, said fan having a discharging chute 28, which is inclined coincidentl to the incline of the screen, thereby directing the'blast of air alongthesur'race of the screen and towards the endof the frame, the blast of air being suflicient to separate the hulls from the kernels as the descend upon the screen.

The blast air 'is maintained adjacent the surface of the screen 25 by extending a blast board 29; downwardly from the bottom 5 of the hopper 3 between the blast fan-and the. bars 13, the. lowerend of the blast board terminating a distance above the screen 25, whereby a passage is rovided for the air from the blast fan, said b ast board-prevent-" jingtheair from the fan'from blowing di- -rectl :onto the bars 13, thus giving the de- I seen in'gkernels and hulls a chance to scatter 8501 separate before encounteringthe blast of air,- 1n w ch event the'hulls will be more v readily separated from'the kernels. 7 The blast fan 2'1 is mounted u on a-shaft 31, one end of which is extended t roughone of the side walls 2 and has thereon a pulley 32, aroundwhich extends a driving belt 33, the opposed endgof said belt being disposed aroun adriving pulley 34, on-the sha t 22',

andj-b this construction-it willbe readily v 85"seen t at when the beater 23 is'rotated, the

fan 27 will be'likewise simultaneously rotated and a blast of air directed along the face of the'screen 25. 4 y 7 f .aI adjustably mounting'the bars-13 below 40 the beater 23 it bereadil seen that nuts' of various sizes'ma'y be readily crushed, as when smaller nuts vare'fed'into the hulling chamber," the bars 13 are'to be ad'usted up wardly and-in closer proximity to t e path of y the beater Lind-likewise, placed at a greater distanc-,-ffrom-.the beater-when larger nutsaiebe'ingrhulled. 'J'

' 'In operation, the hopper 3 is filled with the nuts and the slide 8e evated to the proper through the 'openmg' 6into the-h I r q the-beater 23, t e nuts be moved over thebars 13 and the hulls of the nutscrushed, the beater forcing the crushed hulls and the.

,J66.nutsbetweenithebars and to'prevent the nuts from;

thrownoutof-the-hullmg' 'chamber'byv-st' It will thus be seen, that I have provided a "chain er -7and'byrotatin'g "the beater 23, ,I provide ahood-35, which is hingedly secured at one.

edge of the cross bar 20 and adapted to extend over the beater.

As thehulls and kernelsdescendfr'om the hulling chamber, theypass through the blast of air from the fan 27 and as the kernels are heavier than the hulls, said hulls will be blown over the outer end of the screen, while "the kernels will descend onthescreen 25 and enter the receptacle 26, thereby thoroughly cleaning the kernels from the hulls and foreign particles and it will be readily understood that the screen 25 is interchangeable, whereby the kernels may be more closely graded before being deposited in the recep- 'tacle.

-very cheap and efiicient form of ulling de-' vice and one wherein nutsof various sizes Y may be operated upon and it will further be seen that the kerne s will be thoroughly se "arated from the hulls of the nuts and t ekernels aded before being'de osited in an rece tacld and it will likewise" e seen that the ow of the nuts from the hopper into the hulling chamber may be readilyincreased-or decreased as desired.

What I claim is: y In a bullet of the class described, the combination with a ho per adapted to-contain;- nuts, an inclined ottom'for saidho per, said hopper having an openi at the ower end of said bottom, a shde a apted to control the flow of nuts through said opening, a rod secured to said slide and means at the upper end of saidrod to adjust said slide vertically ;.'-of a hullin chamber, a shaft e13- tending through sai chamber, a heater mounted onsaid shaft, a'plurality of separate bars arranged concentrically around the path of said beater means" to ad ust said bars vertically with re ationl'to the beater, said adjustment permitting one end of the bars to be movedindependentl of the-other, a blast boardirithe rear of sai bars, a screen below said bars'and 's aced from the end of the blast board to orm a passage, said screen being arranged on, a downwardincline and -tern'nnatin in a verticalportion and means I to'dire ct a last ofair through said passage 10 'tudinally ofsaidmcreen.

-1-,e stimonyi whereof Ihave signed my v name to thisspecification in the presence of,1 10

"two subscribing witnesses.

I Witnesses:

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